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Re:An Abridged Cartoon Introduction To WebAssembly by monkmartinez on Monday May 15, 2017 @05:55PM (#14345489)
Me too, but I am drawing a different conclusion. Perhaps he/she means that companies ultimately drive the market forward as it were. I mean, most people do not strictly trade time/effort for no reward. Reward can mean different things for different people, but I would tend to land on most people trade labor for money. Companies invest in tools all the time, especially internet companies. They would have the bigger reason to get behind efforts that increase the share of developers available.
Re:An Abridged Cartoon Introduction To WebAssembly by gavinpc on Tuesday May 16, 2017 @12:25AM (#14347348)
Yes, I'm saying that this would not move forward without buy-in from non-programmers with influence. But language isn't the only thing. WASM is (correct me if I'm wrong) harder to reverse engineer, which must matter to those same stakeholders.
Re:An Abridged Cartoon Introduction To WebAssembly by dr_zoidberg on Tuesday May 16, 2017 @10:55AM (#14350060)
I don't see how it would be harder to RE than .NETs IL (which is pretty easy to RE), or even plain old assembly -- which looks horrible, but can be disassembled and even "decompiled" (which generates a potential C source from the disassembled bytecode).